If a controller is deleting correlations from your sense data, that makes discovering causality harder, and it seems difficult to say “aha, causality is harder to discover than normal, therefore there are controllers!”, but that might actually be effective.
Yes, in the PCT field this is called the Test for the Controlled Variable. Push on a variable, and if it does not change, and it doesn’t appear to be nailed down, there’s probably a control system there.
I have an unpublished paper relating the phenomenon to causal analysis à la Pearl, but it’s been turned down by two journals so far, and I’m not sure I can be bothered to rewrite it again.
I have an unpublished paper relating the phenomenon to causal analysis à la Pearl, but it’s been turned down by two journals so far, and I’m not sure I can be bothered to rewrite it again.
I looked at arXiv, but there’s still a gateway process. It’s less onerous than passing referee scrutiny, but still involves getting someone else with sufficient reputation on arXiv to ok it. As far as I know, no-one in my university department or in the research institute I work at has ever published anything there. I have accounts on researchgate and academia.edu, so I could stick it there.
I have never had any issues putting things up on the arXiv (just have to get through their latex process, which has some wrinkles). I think I have seen a draft of your paper, and I don’t see how arXiv would have an issue with it. Did arXiv reject your draft somehow?
I haven’t sent it there. I created an account on arXiv a while back, and as far as I recall there was some process requiring a submission from someone new to be endorsed by someone else. This, I think, although on rereading I see that it only says that they “may” post facto require endorsement of submissions by authors new to arXiv, it’s not a required part of the submission process. What happened the very first time you put something there?
(I know I’m not IlyaShpitser, but better my reply than no reply.) I have several papers on the arXiv, and the very first time I submitted one I remember it being automatically posted without needing endorsement (and searching my inbox confirms that; there’s no extra email there asking me to find an endorser). If you submit a not-obviously-cranky-or-offtopic preprint from a university email address I expect it to sail right through.
Because they’re so small, I feel like their policies can be really inconsistent from circumstance to circumstance. I’ve got a couple papers on arXiv, but my third one has been mysteriously on hold for some months now for reasons that are entirely unclear to me.
(I know I’m not IlyaShpitser, but better my reply than no reply.) I have several papers on the arXiv, and the very first time I submitted one I remember it being automatically posted without needing endorsement
How long ago was this? I believe the endorsement for new submitters requirement was added ~6 years ago.
I have an unpublished paper relating the phenomenon to causal analysis à la Pearl, but it’s been turned down by two journals so far, and I’m not sure I can be bothered to rewrite it again.
I’d be interested in seeing it, if you don’t mind! (My email is my username at gmail, or you can contact me any of the normal ways.)
Yes, in the PCT field this is called the Test for the Controlled Variable. Push on a variable, and if it does not change, and it doesn’t appear to be nailed down, there’s probably a control system there.
I have an unpublished paper relating the phenomenon to causal analysis à la Pearl, but it’s been turned down by two journals so far, and I’m not sure I can be bothered to rewrite it again.
arXiv?
I looked at arXiv, but there’s still a gateway process. It’s less onerous than passing referee scrutiny, but still involves getting someone else with sufficient reputation on arXiv to ok it. As far as I know, no-one in my university department or in the research institute I work at has ever published anything there. I have accounts on researchgate and academia.edu, so I could stick it there.
I have never had any issues putting things up on the arXiv (just have to get through their latex process, which has some wrinkles). I think I have seen a draft of your paper, and I don’t see how arXiv would have an issue with it. Did arXiv reject your draft somehow?
I haven’t sent it there. I created an account on arXiv a while back, and as far as I recall there was some process requiring a submission from someone new to be endorsed by someone else. This, I think, although on rereading I see that it only says that they “may” post facto require endorsement of submissions by authors new to arXiv, it’s not a required part of the submission process. What happened the very first time you put something there?
(I know I’m not IlyaShpitser, but better my reply than no reply.) I have several papers on the arXiv, and the very first time I submitted one I remember it being automatically posted without needing endorsement (and searching my inbox confirms that; there’s no extra email there asking me to find an endorser). If you submit a not-obviously-cranky-or-offtopic preprint from a university email address I expect it to sail right through.
Well, I’ve just managed to put a paper up on arXiv (a different one that’s been in the file drawer for years), so that works.
Because they’re so small, I feel like their policies can be really inconsistent from circumstance to circumstance. I’ve got a couple papers on arXiv, but my third one has been mysteriously on hold for some months now for reasons that are entirely unclear to me.
How long ago was this? I believe the endorsement for new submitters requirement was added ~6 years ago.
My first submission was in 2012. I’m fairly sure I read about the potential endorsement-for-new-submitters condition at the time, too.
SSRN?
I’d be interested in seeing it, if you don’t mind! (My email is my username at gmail, or you can contact me any of the normal ways.)